About the Author

Annamaria Alfieri, actually named Patricia King, began writing stories at the age of nine and, as she puts it, never stopped. After writing a number of well received non-fiction books that landed her an appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show, she took a trip to Bolivia that inspired her to write her first mystery novel (City of Silver, published by Felony & Mayhem in 2011). With that shift into fiction, King took on her pseudonym a combination of her mother s and her grandmother s names to avoid confusion with other novelists also named Patricia King. She lives in New York City."